6 ON AND OFF THE. A VE.NUE. =<::::=-== T HE landed ) , gentry who had .:Z;u': ' ;jwJ ,': hoped that this sum- mer their lawns and terraces would final- ]y burgeon with handsome outdoor fur- niture of modern design are, I fear, in for disappointment, unless they are par- ticularly sharp at picking and choosing. Good-looking meta] tahles and chairs of clean, severe lines are being produced somewhere, as is proved by what we see and hear of Hollywood patios, but that will not offer much comfort to local householders, who might as well face the fact that the things available in '--' Manhattan are, with an occasional ex- ception, depressingly banal. One of the happiest of these exceptions is the garden furniture of spare, simple pattern at De- signed for Living, 131 East 57th Street. Here there are Pompeian-green chairs and tables of extraordinarily light square steel tubing, with straight, sleek legs (it seems beyond the power of most other designers to achieve a straight leg) and no decoration except an apron, or, rath- er, an airy suggestion of an apron. The glass tabletops are not set in rims, which eliminates the old difficulty with crumbs, and the unusually wide and deep cush- ions on the backs and seats of the chairs are covered in plastic materia] or bright- ly colored sailcloth. The price of a thirty-by-sixty-inch dining table is $89.50, and there are two matching consoles of. the same height and width '-' that can he added at the ends, at $48 each. A thirty-by-forty-inch coffee table with a glass top is $66.50, and generously cushioned side chairs are $44 . For some reason, the chaise longue in this design is less graceful than the other pieces, but there is a well-propor- tioned lounge chair, at $69.50, and a matching ottoman, at $42.50, that can be joined together most satisfactorily for full-length reclining. A T w. & J. Sloane, there is prob- ably as large a collection of pleas- ing, moderately priced outdoor things as you will find. A superlatively comfort- able Pompeian-green iron chair (you will inevitably meet up with a great deal of this weathered-copper color, so it's to be hoped that you like it) is fitted with a one-piece cushion covered in a very attractive powder-blue, weather-resist- ant material that looks like leather $59.50. In thin iron, for $20, are some of those sun burst side chairs, enamelled white or pea green, with springy backs I t j , I f J tl ) , \ \;g, J' - ,1., :-' : ,',' ,..,_." .. "'. .- ,,;',--.-", ,' ;...W' õ__"--. >; , ,;, 'ø":::""" .......: : _ "'...: ,' .:t.. 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'<- ' of': it.;' f, ...... ;.,...-'_"'{""' J(, N ", ..,--" ";' ::i p: ( i '-"", f, Ifo41jt/Jffl ABOUT THE, HOUSE, and seats like those the chairs in French parks used to have, and there is a tuhular aluminum steamer chair, at $16.50, which, by a mild tug on the arms, can be adjusted to a number of reclining positions. Obscuring these more or less restrained píeces is a collection of lush chaise longues, on wheels and off vvheels, with canopies and without canopies, but as every shop has the same things, and as they are all bigger and more strident and somehow have even less distinction than ever, we needn't go into them. You should, though, have a look at Sloane's rattan furniture, some of which is very nice. There is an al- most limitless variety of glass-topped rattan tables, al1 of which have been treated with a shiny finish that makes them weather-resistant. Prices begin at $45, for a coffee table. Innumerable rattan chairs include a fine, deep-seated, unvarnished one with fat green cush- ions, at $100. T HERE is a lot of this rattan furni- ture at Hammacher Schlemmer, too, in sizes and shapes that you won't find elsewhere. For instance, an enor- .:':= x:: i. ;:' mous rattan pouf on rollers is quite large enough to seat six on its exaggeratedly high, green-and-yellow canvas cushion, if you happen to know six people who like to sit in a circle on a round, back- less seat that costs $120. Another out- size piece is a low rattan table with a glass top big enough to hold tea para- phernalia for a considerable company; $130 for this. \\That I like best at Ham- macher, though, are some low willow beach chairs with pretty cushions (what has become of all those lovely willow garden chairs?), which are almost :fl ush with the ground and would be "- nice for sprawlers who demand no more than a seat and a back rest; $42. The rattan frames of other decorative beach chairs, whose seats are also very close to the ground, are laced with bright-col- ored webbing; $44. If, after all, your heart is stil1 set on having your garden sprout white-painted metal furniture, Hammacher 'has plenty of it that is less ornate than most. ^ T Altman, there is a table that con- n. sists of a round, frosted-glass top set on a yellow tubular-metal framt, IJI , · ft '1i w ", 'y, ,:'::j: R ::: :::.". '. #" ;:;. "' i, ?: :,t )ii,' ,,{ * "Son1etin1es I think Schrafft's doesn't care about calories."